Quotes by Disraeli, Benjamin

"Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen."

Disraeli, Benjamin on travel   

"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth."

Disraeli, Benjamin on truth
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"Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth."

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"Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time."

Disraeli, Benjamin on truth   

"Damn your principles. Stick to your Party!"

Disraeli, Benjamin on unity   

"Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty."

Disraeli, Benjamin on value   

"Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose."

Disraeli, Benjamin on power   

"Worry -- a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray."

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"An author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children."

Disraeli, Benjamin on writers and writing   

"The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity."

Disraeli, Benjamin on youth   

"We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity."

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"Youth is the trustee of prosperity."

Disraeli, Benjamin on youth   

"Christianity is completed Judaism or it is nothing."

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"Man is more powerful than matter."

Disraeli, Benjamin on circumstance   

"Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power."

Disraeli, Benjamin on circumstance
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"Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter."

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"A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art."

Disraeli, Benjamin on life   

"Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man."

Disraeli, Benjamin on civilization   

"If you are not very clever, you should be conciliatory."

Disraeli, Benjamin on compromise   

"A consistent man believes in destiny, a capricious man in chance."

Disraeli, Benjamin on consistency   

"Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent."

Disraeli, Benjamin on country   

"Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke."

Disraeli, Benjamin on courage   

"It is much easier to be critical than to be correct."

Disraeli, Benjamin on criticism
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"Critics are those who have failed in literature and art."

Disraeli, Benjamin on criticism   

"Everything comes if a man will only wait."

Disraeli, Benjamin on cycles   

"Mr Kremlin himself was distinguished for ignorance, for he had only one idea,and that was wrong. "

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"For nearly five years the present Ministers have harassed every trade, worried every profession, and assailed or menaced every class, institution, and species of property in the country. Occasionally they have varied this state of civil warfare by perpetrating some job which outraged public opinion, or by stumbling into mistakes which have been always discreditable, and sometimes ruinous. All this they call a policy, and seem quite proud of it; but the country has, I think, made up its mind to close this career of plundering and blundering. "

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"I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few. "

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"That we may live to see England once more possess a free Monarchy and a privileged and prosperous People, is my Prayer; that these great consequences can only be brought about by the energy and devotion of our Youth is my persuasion. We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity. "

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"I have climbed to the top of the greasy pole!"

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"The secret of success is constancy of purpose. "

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"In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable. "

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"I was told, continued Egremont, that an impassable gulf divided the Rich from the Poor; I was told that the Privileged and the People formed Two Nations, governed by different laws, influenced by different manners, with no thoughts or sympathies in common; with an innate inability of mutual comprehension. "

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"You cannot choose between party government and Parliamentary government. I say you can have no Parliamentary government if you have no party government; and therefore when gentlemen denounce party government, they strike at the scheme of government which, in my opinion, has made this country great, and which, I hope, will keep it great. "

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"You have despoiled churches. You have threatened every corporation and endowment in the country. You have examined into everybodys affairs. You have criticised every profession and vexed every trade. No one is certain of his property, and nobody knows what duties he may have to perform to-morrow. This is the policy of confiscation as compared with that of concurrent endowment. "

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"At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists. "

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"Then there was a maiden speech, so inaudible, that it was doubted whether, after all, the young orator really did lose his virginity. "

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"I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man. "

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"Never complain and never explain. "

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"Sir, I say that justice is truth in action. "

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